Thanks for the LD Richard. I received and set up my palm tree in memory of Gini. Now all I need to do is hang lemons from it.

A cold night in KA-NA-DA. I think something warm is in the cards. How about a Spanish Coffee? Yeah, that will do it.

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, champagne in one hand and strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming WOO HOO - What a Ride!--unknown

Sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see--Polar Express
Until one has loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawakened.

"That's the power of kittens (and puppies too, of course): They can reduce us to quivering masses of Jell-O in about two seconds flat and make us like it. Good thing they don't have opposable thumbs or they'd surely have taken over the world by now." -- Paul Lukas

Ice fog is nasty...little ice crystals floating around like tiny, tiny snowflakes. You almost don't notice the stuff, but the effects are as bad as black ice, and black ice doesn't melt on the windshield.

I was driving in to work last night in sub -20F, and felt the car getting squirrely, but there was nothing visibly wrong until I flipped on the high beams for a second and saw the ice in the air.

The one eyed man in the kingdom of the blind wasn't king, he was stoned for seeing light.